About Us

K12IRC.org is an independent resource, maintained and funded by Dr. Bonnie Tenenbaum. We receive no corporate or government funding.

We are an entirely free-to-use resource for the K-12 community, with no payment, registration or e-mail address requirements.

K12IRC.org catalogs over 2,300 web and video resources. Dive in and learn something new. Do a search, check out some suggestions, or scan the Table of Contents.

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Back in the 1995, the Internet as we know it today was just getting organized. There were only 23,500 web sites on the entire Internet (vs. 968,882,453 sites in 2014) and Yahoo's tree index - a collection of static web pages - was "the Google" of that day.

The Internet, however, was starting to take off and the National Science Foundation saw a need for an index site similar to Yahoo, but dedicated specifically to educators, explaining the Internet and indexing and organizing educational resources.

The Virtual Public Library - Instructional Media Center  - vpl-imc.org - was the result of that initiative.

As with most initiatives, funding eventually ended for the web site. Rather than shutting down the resource, Dr. Bonnie Tenenbaum, one of the original creators of the site, adopted the site and maintains it to this day.

Over the years this site has gone thru a number of reorganizations – and name changes – as it reacts to the changes in the Internet and the needs of it's core audience, the K-12 education community.

Today, rather than trying to be all things to all people, we are focused on highlighting best-of-breed resources, ideas for interdisciplinary learning, and to be a clearinghouse for educator concerns and needs.

We receive no funding from government or corporate funding. This allows us to be an independent voice, indexing the-best-of-the-web for the K-12 education community without restrictions or agenda.

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